New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert
Available for touring.
New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert is part pop-up book, part performance. Theatre-maker and musician Amanda Sum de-digitizes her identity-drenched indie-pop album into a handmade book. Each audience member is given a personalized book to silently read together. Filled with sonic descriptions and humorous invitations, the pop-up book guides audience members through a new way of listening and receiving.
New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert is neither a musical nor a straight concert. Shifting the traditional structure of a music concert by using collective reading as a backbone, this lo-fi performance prioritizes introvertedness and celebrates awkwardness. Amanda rearranges her debut album, New Age Attitudes, to craft a new narrative that demands your gentle devotion.
New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert. Photo by Reagan Jade.
Created, crafted and performed by Amanda Sum. Directed by Maiko Yamamoto, with installation design by Cindy Mochizuki, lighting design by Alexandra Caprara and technical stage management by Vee Pho. Studio assistance by Cyville Castro and Jordyn Wood. New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert was commissioned by Theatre Replacement as part of our COLLIDER Artists Residency.
The work premiered at PushOFF in 2023, and has toured to The Cultch in Vancouver. Touring nationally in the spring of 2024.
WORLD PREMIERE
PushOFF 2023: Emergent Realities
February 1 + 4, 2023
VANCOUVER
TOURING
Femme Festival, The Cultch
May 11-14, 2023
VANCOUVER
Nakai Theatre
Yukon Arts Centre
April 26 & 27, 2024
WHITEHORSE, YT
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)
May 2, 2024
DAWSON CITY, YT
For touring inquiries, contact katie@theatrereplacement.org
Photos by Reagan Jade
Video by Emma Pollard